Thingspeak Expiration Date? License Type: Free

Hello,

I am using thingspeak for a personal non-profit project i build with my son so he can get into this world. Basically we builded a small weather station that collects data locally from a weather website and uploads them here.

Since we started uploading more data (changed how frequently, from every 5 minute to one minute uploads) i wanted to see if i calculated the number of uploaded messages per day correct.

So right now i am uploading 7150 messages (more or less) per day and that is in the plan.

But above that i saw this

Expiration Date: 04 Dec 2019

Does that mean that this account will be locked after that date? I am asking because we have put a lot of work and effort on this project, and on this account we have connected a website that collects the data and visualises them in a way we like.

Should i start somehow migrate to a new account? can i transfer the data from this account to another? Are there any steps we can do to avoid the expire?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

[Vinod]

I believe the FAQ answers all your questions. For personal, non commercial projects on the free license, the expiration date represents when your current quota of messages expires and you get a new quota of 3 millions messages for the following 365 day period.

[GnF]

Oh now I got it. So it is an expiration date for the quota.

Oh I did not understand that. How silly of me. As I am explaining that to the kiddo l, he told me to say: Thank you and sorry for the trouble. Amazing thing you have build here.